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The school lunch program has an interesting history going back to its inception during the Truman administration. Long story short, because large corporate food producers can offer economies of scale, the federal government saves some money. But the large producers have no incentive to offer anything other than the cheapest foods in order to serve their bottom lines, so the best nutritional choices aren't even considered. As a taxpayer, I demand that we get more for the tens of billions of dollars we give to these large producers. But these contracts have been hardwired for so long, it's difficult to engender changes on such a large scale.

Hell of an opportunity for the kid. He'd be a fool not to consider an offer from the Black Hawks. GO SABRES!!!

As long as the probability is greater than the odds, 3rd rounders will always be prized assets in these parts.

He said if E Kane was white, he wouldn't have been charged and arrested. Seems pretty clear to me. Or was my example of a white hockey player not white enough?

SCHWING! Tears, Jerry. Comedy tears!

So, if Patrick Kane was accused of grabbing a woman by the throat, pulling her hair, and trying to force her into a car after calling her a slut, he wouldn't have any charges brought against him? All four complainants, the three women and bouncer, would have decided NOT to press charges because P Kane is white? That is absurd.

Another argument to do away with the electoral college, imo. It is passe and unfit for modern society.

A non vote for the least threatening is a vote for the most threatening. Or, to paraphrase the Trump worker put this morning on MSNBC, "Any Sanders supporter that doesn't vote for Hillary is a vote for Trump." Now, I'm not saying you or anyone is a Sanders supporter, just that the principle is the same. If you honestly feel both are harmful, but one is exponentially more so, your non vote benefits the more harmful of the two. Sometimes we have to bite the bullet and make the least harmful bad choice. I can't remember a national election where this was so obvious. Trump is the worst presidential candidate in my 57 years on this planet. On more fronts than I care to enumerate here. That's not an endorsement of Clinton, just my realization that Trump, based on everything he has said and done in this campaign, would be major catastrophe.

It's a wasted vote if you honestly feel, deep down, that one of the two candidates is exponentially worse than the other and would be far more harmful to the nation and the world if elected.

Definitely butt hurt. Other journalists in attendance at that meeting were, and are still, stupefied at the remark. But they didn't draw any battle lines as a result. They checked their impartiality, unlike certain BN scribes who literally get red-faced when past over for scoops from either organization. No doubt the organization has earned negative coverage. Other writers are just better at it than others. GO SABRES!!!

So, bloody, terrorist machete attacks are Trump's gain? This is even worse than when GOPers were openly routing for a tanking economy and bad job reports in the last cycle.

That's only part of the answer. The other part is that Sully, Bucky, etc., are still butt hurt at Pegula's admonishment when he bought the team and the subsequent "freeze out" of certain BN personnel from access to information from both the Sabres and Bills organizations. They have checked their impartiality at the door as a result. GO SABRES!!!

Every one of these bullet points can apply to Clinton supporters, Cruz supporters, whomever supporters in addition to Trump supporters. We are indeed social creatures. Sometimes to a fault. Read up on mob behavior and behaviors of crowds witnessing people being attacked and assaulted, etc. Our hard-wired social behaviors often make us incapable of doing the right things.

Really? After only hearing him one time?

Sorry if this was discussed previously, but when I heard about this and read the various articles about it, I was floored. How any Trump supporter can defend this defies logic. From a NYT article:

Let's be honest, GDubbya set the bar at an impossibly low level.

That dolt and his neo-con puppet masters phucked things up in that region for the next 100 years. And I say that knowing how phucked up that region has been for the last 100 years.

HaHa! But that might be impossible for someone that sleeps while hanging upside down and can't be exposed to direct sunlight. GO SABRES!!!

You might be on to something here. We were well on our way to becoming a hot pocket society before google with our 5 second attention spans and incessant need for distractions. Source checking is more important than ever. It always comes down to my Comms 101 lesson from years ago; that the sender, receiver, and the message itself constitutes communication. We can tailor our information sending and receiving to support whatever opinion we hold about anything. Especially when it comes to messages we "want" to hear. From what we know about what they found in his home, the forensic psychologists are going to have a field day.

I didn't have n in mind specifically. One way to manage potential biases is to admit we all have them which might be the first step in analyzing things with more objectivity. It's not that simple though, when our biases run in lock step with desired outcomes. It all starts with a willingness to be edified.

I thought it was a rule that all strong men need to have the word "Magnus" somewhere in their name.

The fact he was Iranian will be enough to convince the myopic that this was another case of 'Islamic' terrorism. They tend to be short on nuance and given their loyalty to right-wing news sources, they have been convinced to be afraid; be very afraid. Nobody sells fear like the far right.

Spirit of the discussion? You mean the vilification of a 23 year old young man, blessed with hockey talent, that has a chance to exercise his collectively bargained right to become a free agent? Or is it the spirit of the portion of the discussion that condemns GMTM for using a low risk asset for a chance at a high reward? Christ, after wading through the mounds of crap and trolling along those lines, I thought the math discussion was a welcomed distraction. I really don't give a flying phuck whether anyone appreciates the difference between odds and probability. Like I said, it was a welcomed distraction. Carry on. GO SABRES!!!

Still no respect for the difference between odds and probability, I see. The purist in me weeps. I'm out. But thanks for the exercise. GO SABRES!!!

This is who NC wants in the bathroom with little girls. This person, who was born a girl has identified as a male for most of his 23 years. He still possesses female genitalia and because he has that, NC insists he use the girls room. America is downright stupid at times. Not just ignorant, but stupid.